Western Australian newspaper printer Sun City Publishing has closed its doors and appointed liquidators, following a domino effect of print publishing collapses across the country.

Sun City Publishing, which is based in Yanchep, WA published two local newspapers The Sun City News and Yanchep Times, and offered graphic design and printing services to the region.

Its mastheads were published fortnightly to the local Yanchep region on the coast of Perth, and it also operated online news websites.

Liquidators from Mackay Goodwin were appointed to Sun City Publishing yesterday, and calls to its Yanchep location are going unanswered.

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The business had been advertised for sale last month for $220,000 due to owner Terry Loftus looking to retire. ProPrint understands the company was unable to source a buyer before appointing liquidators.

The business is also described as offering print brokering services to the Perth region in a sale advertisement on Facebook.

It had been in operation since 1997, employed a workforce of some seven staff members and generated a yearly revenue of $3.8m.

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